We're used to streaming TV and films to our digital devices over the cloud these days, using services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, iPlayer and YouTube.But cloud computing is also having a big impact on how this entertainment is being created.Take US-Canadian visual effects studio Atomic ...

....Meanwhile, Trump’s power to move companies’ share prices seems to have evaporated. Amazon is “doing great damage to tax paying retailers”, tweeted the president in the morning, but investors no longer care what he thinks about individual companies. ...

....”. Gates has been the richest man on the planet since 2013 – apart from a very brief blip last month when Amazon’s Jeff Bezos overtook him for a couple of hours as the technology company’s shares spiked before falling back. ...

.... Investors have learned to discriminate. Stocks such as Amazon, Google, Facebook and Tesla remain hellishly difficult to value by old yardsticks, but the market is commendably ruthless in punishing the shares of overpromoted companies that disappoint financially, like Twitter. ...

....Former top Sky executive Mike Darcey thinks that, after a string of bidding battles, Sky and BT may this time reach an equilibrium in how the seven Premier League TV rights packages are divided. He believes that unless a new rival makes an unlikely entrance and ratchets up the bidding – someone such as Amazon, which recently poached the UK rights to ATP World Tour tennis from Sky – “natural” inflation over the past three years could see the price rise by no more than 15%. ...

....While the past few months have seen a handful of highly visible exceptions (Wonder Woman, for one, raked in a princely $400m to claim the No 2 spot for the year to date in box-office gross), the articles declaring 2017 to be the greatest movie summer on record refer mainly to the preponderance of high quality films making the rounds rather than big-impact blockbusters. Positive reviews do not a hit make – consider the sad example of Atomic Blonde, a glossy action flick which has barely recouped its $30m budget despite glowing notices and Charlize Theron as a bisexual martial arts Amazon in black lingerie – and we’re in a severe drought of crowd-pleasers operating on a studio scale. ...

. Sky could be forced to pay an extra £600m annually to retain the lion’s share of Premier League matches when the next rights auction launches this year, with Amazon emerging as a potential competitor for the biggest prize in UK sport broadcasting. ...